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Using the PI
System to Improve
Safety at Suncor’s
SAGD Operations
Tripti Somani
Tom Luo
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Agenda
• Suncor at a Glance
• History with the PI System
• Improving Safety and Performance
– Observations wells monitoring for Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) operations
– Safety Interlock Bypass Monitoring and Reporting
• Concluding Remarks
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About Suncor
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Canada’s Leading Integrated Energy Company
• HQ in Calgary
• 14,000 employees
• Global E&P ~170 kboe/d
• Oil Sands – ~499 kbbls/d
• 4 Refineries – 460k kbbls/d
• +1,500 Petro-Canada stations
• 6 wind farms – 255 MW
• 1 Ethanol Plant
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Our Journey from a “Historian” to an Infrastructure
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• First PI System installed in 2006 at Firebag SAGD
• Current installed base– 4 sites/18 EA PI System servers, 2 non-EA sites/3 server w ~100k tags
– PI-AF, PI Notification, PI ACE, and other advanced functionality
– Remote asset surveillance and support of all PI installations (Managed PI)
• EA Signed in late 2009 covering our In Situ operations
• EA Expanded in late 2012 to include Oil Sands (Mines, Extraction, Upgraders, E&U)
• Key areas of Use:– Operations visibility and KPI
– Energy and environmental regulatory reporting (WPT, MARP)
– Plant & Asset performance and monitoring
– Assist in managing safety
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Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD)
• Approximately 80% of Canada’s Oil Sands too deep to mine
• Two key SAGD facilities – Firebag & MacKay River
• Parallel pairs of horizontal wells are drilled: – one for steam injection
– one for oil recovery
• Safety and Operational challenges:
– Large numbers of assets and instrumentations
– Complex logic and criteria
– Process Changes
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Solution Results and Benefits
Enhancing SAGD Operational Safety &
Reservoir Monitoring & Optimization
Business Challenge
• Identify abnormal pressure,
temperature and steam migration
outside of the reservoir
• Real-time information for large
number of wells and conditions
• Selected and installed the
PI System as a real-time
integration infrastructure
• PI System infrastructure
key components - PI-AF, PI
Notifications
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• Enable enhanced safety,
environment & production
• Assist in SAGD operations, &
asset reliability & optimization
• Continuous improvement, and
collaboration
“Any abnormal reservoir responses are captured
automatically and alert the responsible parties
immediately, so that prompt actions are taken place
to ensure a safe operation.“
Manager Reservoir Management, Firebag
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Proactive Reservoir Monitoring – The Role of Observation Wells
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Legacy Monitoring System without PI AF
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Challenges:
- Longer development time
- Unhandled exceptions trigger false alarms
- Challenge to manage business change requests
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Synchronization of Object Models
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System ModelProduction Model
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PI AF and PI Notifications
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• Ease of use • Templates to set up new notifications
• Support & development
• Better Exceptions handling
• Highly reliable than custom code
• No False Alarms
• Historize notifications
High or lower levels alarms available on DCS.
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PI AF and PI Notifications
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Blanket gas pressure increased Investigation End of alarm status
Alert type: High Blanket Gas
Pressure
Reservoir Engineer called the field
to get the confirmation that there
was a hydrate/freezing in the
pipeline which caused the blanket
gas pressure to increase.
High Blanket Gas Pressure
Alarm Ended.
High Blanket Gas Pressure
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Blanket gas pressure
Tubing steam rate
Casing steam rate
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Low Flow alerts on ESPs (electric submersible pump)
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A Low Flow event was detected
in one of the pumps based on
wellhead temperature fall off
• Lost production
• Potentially fail of an ESP, around
$0.5 million at risk
• 130+ wells at Firebag
Wellhead temperature
Motor current
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Solution Results and Benefits
Using the PI System to Monitor
Critical Interlock Bypasses and
Equipment Trips
Business Challenge
• Thousands of bypass tags
• Custom logic and reporting
requirements
• Multiple points can be used
to monitor one bypass
• Monitor, report, and audit
safety critical bypasses
through
• PI Data Access
Server,
• PI JDBC
• ETL and BI
It is very important to continuously monitor
and audit safety critical bypasses as
bypasses compromise the protection
functions that are designed to protect human
Health & Safety and the Environment.
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• Improved governance of
critical interlock bypass
• Ability to track bypass
history for audit purposes
• Enable risk mitigation
planning (responsible
groups, bypass duration)
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Example - Bypass in Control System
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Corp Data
Oracle
SQL
DCS
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DCS -> PI System ->
PI JDBC -> SQL ->
Business
Intelligence Tools
Data Flow for the Bypass & Equipment Trips Monitoring
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Extract history from PI Archive into SQL
jdbc:pisql://localhost/Data
source=FIREBAGPI; Integrated
Security=SSPI; command timeout = 1200;
JDBC driver: com.osisoft.jdbc.Driver
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Equipment Trip Report
To be replaced with Event Frames
to understand Downtime and
Overall Equipment Effectiveness
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Closing Comments
1. Increased data availability to users through PI System
2. Assist in following operations strategy and optimize production
3. Enhanced decision making & collaboration
4. PI AF enabled us to meet rapid business growth
5. Increasing PI System installations with the EA
6. What is next?
– PI Event Frames and PI Analytics
– Migrate custom alerts to PI AF
7. Use of PI system to assist in improving safety
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Contact us
• Tripti Somani, Manager Applications and
Infrastructure
• Tom Luo, Lead Historians and Database
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